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From Business Week comes a funny, mocking take on the complete avoidance of traditional town halls by Members of Congress:
Gone are the packed, freewheeling town halls of the past, where voters stood up at microphones and pelted elected officials with questions on just about anything. Members of Congress largely put an end to unscripted, up-close-and-personal events after the traumatic summer of 2009, when dozens of lawmakers were shouted down by mad-as-hell Tea Partiers and citizens angry that the proposed Affordable Care Act was going too far or not far enough.
The new town halls, as described in the article:
Activists have reported on this ...